For your consideration, two articles in today’s New York Times. First, “How to Remind a Parent of the Baby in the Car?:” INFANTS or young children left inside a vehicle can die of hyperthermia in a few hours, even when the temperature outside is not especially hot. It is a tragedy that kills about 30 [...]
Friend of the blog and TV’s own <grin> Chris Nickerson has firmed up B-Sides for Las Vegas and is looking for a few good people to submit a few good presos. I spoke last year with David Mortman and it was awesome. Chris put on some real good event/space for us all. I encourage you [...]
I was talking with (the now nationally famous) Rich Mogull at Secure360 last week in St. Paul (fabulous security gathering, btw, I highly recommend it), and he reiterated his position that we had too much “echo chamber” and not enough engagement with everyone – especially our peers who are down in the trenches and too [...]
If you are developing or using security metrics, it’s inevitable that you’ll have to deal with the dimension of time. “Data” tells you about the past. “Security” is a judgement about the present. “Risk” is a cost of the future, brought to the present. The way to marry these three is through social learning processes.
This event will be the first discussion of these Federal cybersecurity R&D objectives and will provide insights into the priorities that are shaping the direction of Federal research activities. One of the three themes is “Cyber economic incentives — foundations for cyber security markets, to establish meaningful metrics, and to promote economically sound secure practices.”